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Here is one I found today while roll searching, it is a 1994D D/D with the second  D being tilted to the right. [img][/img]
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 coopExpert Member
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:15 pm |
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Impossible. They stopped punching the mint marks in 1990. They are just part of the die pattern since then. what happens in the plating get moved and the zinc gets exposed blow it and that to rise with enviromental elements cause a reaction. Happens on a large percentage of the Cents from Denver.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:33 pm |
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Coop,
Well you are right that the mint mark is part of the die, but it is tilted the second (D) it could have been hit twice that is what i am thinking.
Patrick
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:40 pm |
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If there was a second mint mark present, it would have to be a doubled die and all of the date would also be doubled. Just the senario I mentioned in my first comment.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:36 pm |
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When the cent was struck it probably had a little tear in the plating along the D, oxidation is now getting the zinc along that area and making the D look strange.
Someday the D might fall off into a pothole. LOL 
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:09 pm |
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Ok thank you both
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Patrick - cents with 'cavities' around the mintmark are rather common. The copper around the mintmark tends to split when the coins are struck, and this reacts with the zinc underneath the copper shell. This is what you have.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 10:55 am |
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Charles,
I just got your book looking through lincoln cents, I like it alot it is a great book and awesome pictures to. I thank you for your reply and it just fooled me in that it looked like a RPM.
Patrick
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